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Old 06/14/13, 10:31 AM
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Found these little critters
While I was working outside I heard a squeaking sound coming from the ground near my garden. I located the area, saw patches of dead grass covering it so I removed the grass and found these little critters buried in a hole....what are they??

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Old 06/14/13, 10:55 AM
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They look like mice to me...
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Old 06/14/13, 11:11 AM
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Voles/moles?
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Old 06/14/13, 11:12 AM
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Baby rats.
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Old 06/14/13, 12:01 PM
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Baby rats.
Even worse!
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Old 06/14/13, 12:11 PM
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Snake food if you know of someone with a snake!
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Old 06/14/13, 12:22 PM
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They are pretty dark for mice. I wondered mole as well.
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Old 06/14/13, 12:34 PM
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they're voles.
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Not moles. They look like baby field mice. Google a picture...
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Old 06/14/13, 12:44 PM
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Well what ever they are they do not need to be living.
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Old 06/14/13, 12:50 PM
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Baby jackalopes
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Old 06/14/13, 12:52 PM
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Short tails, my guess voles. Otherwise known as "cat toys" around here.
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Old 06/14/13, 01:16 PM
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Tooooo big to be mice, tail is too short and feet too pigmented to be rats.

My vote is voles too:

http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/201...ter-voles.html
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Old 06/14/13, 02:04 PM
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Baby rats: http://www.flickr.com/photos/warriormutz/2824046499/

I do think they look more like lasergrl's photo...tail is so short they must be voles.
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Old 06/14/13, 02:22 PM
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They are voles (Microtus arvalis). Here's more for comparison.

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Absolutely as cute as a button! BUT you don't want them to grow up.
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They get much larger than mice, don't they? What do they do?
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Old 06/14/13, 03:37 PM
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They get much larger than mice, don't they? What do they do?
Eat my beets from the root up, so that when I go to harvest all those nice 3" diameter beets all I get is 1/3" of beet that has been hollowed out from the bottom!
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Old 06/14/13, 03:47 PM
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Voles and veggie gardens don't mix. Go ahead...ask me how I know.
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Old 06/14/13, 05:06 PM
 
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They loved my beets, as well as my peanuts and potatoes. They are vegetable eaters, especially root crops.
They don't swim well.
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